A French-Sanskrit Dictionary and Grammar, Interactive and Printable, by Andre Signoret

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 ABOUT W7FRASKT.EXE for Winword Office 97
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 NEW Version 6.1 FRASKT_N.DOC with links.
 and an example of devanagari script.
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 WARNING !!! !!!
 Be sure to use the NINA 0.1 version delivered with MY program !
 If "boxes" are displayed, you MUST cancel your NINA in the Fonts
 Configuration Pannel and install the Font I provide ! 
 Thank you and Sorry for this momentary  trouble !
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FRENCH-SANSKRIT DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR, Interactive and Printable
This is a free programme for all Sanskritists. 
You can download the programme (about 8/12 minutes) from :
                 http://members.aol.com/andresig 
 or
                 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indology.html
 or              http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Le_Rush
 or              http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
 This self-extracting program allows to obtain a French-Sanskrit
 Dictionary.
 First of all, after having downloaded file W7FRASKT.EXE you must
 install the NINA Font (For details, see:
 ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/india/) which provides you with all
 necessary French and romanized Sanskrit characters.
 All details for using the program are given by clicking AIDE / HELP.
 Please follow ALL the instructions given in these files to be sure
 that this programme works properly.
 This Dictionary is the result of several years' work. It contains, in
 its 696 pages, thousands of examples in Sanskrit. Moreover, an
 incorporated Grammar can be consulted at any moment by pressing  [F6]
 or [F5] then Z and the number in RED or BLUE.
 Links in BLUE underlined can be activated by clicking on them.
 The conjugation of verbal roots (in RED) is obtained by pressing
 [F6] and typing Z and the root(i.e ZROOT).
 The Help files and the Index display a list of Keywords that can be
 activated directly by pressing [F6] and typing the Keyword. For
 instance, [F6] MERCI goes to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, [F6] GRAM to GRAMMAR,
 etc.
 Updated versions will be available for downloading every three months
 when necessary.
 Just consult this text file from time to time in order to know if you
 have the latest version.
 For other details, please click on AIDE or HELP after opening the file
 after having consulted its first pages. I recommend you to click on
 CONSEILS and EXER to get some practise of FRASKT97. 

Watch the AOS!, by Enrica Garzilli
In Jan. 23, 1998 I received a letter signed by Jonathan Rodgers informing me that the Program Committe of the 208th Meeting of the AOS was unable to accept my paper. After asking him, he answered: "I am not, however, the one who makes the decision to accept or not to accept papers on the Program. The Program Committee makes those decisions." This means, that the program commettee did not want me to attend the meeting, resorting to a supposidely AOS policy (and we all know how "policy" means, especially in the case of meetings and conferences: that there are many different policies according to the many different agendas of the members of the Program Commettee). Ms. S. Jamison answered - without being questioned my new mail. In fact I had written to other professors saying that was a little late to inform me, and they had followed a very unusual policy - especially since I know a well-known Hindu Studies scholar who likes writing his name in the program every year, and hardly shows off (but I did not tell them the neame of the scholar: they know him well). Jamison told me that "It does not seem an unusual policy to me, as no-shows seriously disrupt the program...".
The year before I and Ms. Jamisn met at the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department at Harvard, while she was trying by all means and by all people to win any kind of position over there. She stopped me along the corridor and reproached me very rudely that I did not go to the meeting a few days before. I informed her of the reason though, and it was a very good reason. And, BTW, I had apologized through another scholar/friend who, strange enough, according to her did not inform the American Oriental Society. The year before too, at the very last moment I had to cancel the participation due to another serious matter which brought me to the hospital - as a patient!
In short, I am not any longer a member of the honorable American Oriental Society. It's enough for me to read the sometimes good papers published in the JAOS - which some university subscribes to.
The moral of the story is: colleagues and friends, do not fail to attend the annual AOS meetings, or the vajra of Ms. Jamison will hit you - or perhaps that reserved to me was her special treatment?J